As I hung off the back of a Songthaew, driving through the mountains, all I could feel was FREEDOM coming at me along with the wind. I felt different than I had last week. I felt different than I had sitting at Launch in July. I felt HAPPY and LIGHT! I realized that I was NEW…..
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the NEW has come.- 2 Corintians 5:17
I realized as the countryside passed me by, I was always going to be NEW that it is a process of life. I could stay the same. I am STUBBORN enough for that. I know that I don't want that. I no longer want to sit in my CRAP. I want to walk through it and learn from it. I want EVERYTHING that God has for me.
As we continued to drive I started singing Beautiful Things by Gungor. The song talks about God making BEAUTIFUL THINGS out of the DUST. I am one of those things, we each are. I started thinking about the lives I have encountered on the WORLD RACE.
The girls in the BARS that just want love, these girls that are lost and loved by God.
The children with special needs in GUATEMALA that stole my heart and they too craved love.
The boys in Honduras that were yearning for LOVE.
The Gypsy children in Romania that wanted to open up and tell their STORIES.
My teammates that have been used by God and are being molded into NEW creations as well.
God LOVES each of us equally. Where we are at life and if we know him doesn't change his love for us. As I thought of all these people the SMILE on my face continued to grow. The HAPPINESS I felt grew and multiplied. I saw how DIFFERENT I really am and I embraced it. I got to show LOVE to each of these people.
I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.-Matthew 25:40
I get to show God my LOVE for him through the people that I love on. How AMAZING is that. It is so WONDERFUL that a ride through the countryside, hanging off the back of a Songthaew could bring such GRACE and continued FREEDOM. The FINAL destination of who I will become is a long way, away but the Journey is great.
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